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closet geek

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Registered: 2007-02-20

Posts: 27

Grub error 17 issue

Can anyone see the problem? I can't spot it:

At the top of my menu.lst I have:

Linux             Grub
/dev/fd0         (fd0)
/dev/hda        (hd0)
/dev/hdb1      (hd1,1)
/dev/hda3      (hd0,2)

all commented out naturally.

My actual boot config is:

title Arch Linux
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda3 ro vga=733
initrd /initrd26.img

My partitions look like this:

/dev/hda5 swap swap
/dev/hda3 / ext3
/dev/hda4 /boot ext2
/dev/hda1 /home ext3

I've installed 0.7.2, there were no errors during the installation or grub install. I've reinstalled grub via the command line (grub-install /dev/hda4) but I always get "grub error 17" when I boot.

Thanks,

cg

closet geek

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Registered: 2007-02-20

Posts: 27

Re: Grub error 17 issue

I've also tried:

title Arch Linux
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda3 ro vga=733
initrd /boot/initrd26.img

but this just produces the same error.

cg

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Grub error 17 issue

try replacing:
initrd /initrd26.img
by:
initrd /kernel26.img
You need to do that if you use one of the newest kernels.

closet geek

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Registered: 2007-02-20

Posts: 27

Re: Grub error 17 issue

Snowman: that didn't help, I think it's not even getting that far. Error 17 is filesystem not recognised error but I can see from mount that it's a plain ext2 partition. I'll look into the grub geometry.

cg

closet geek

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Registered: 2007-02-20

Posts: 27

Re: Grub error 17 issue

I'm no further forwards with this! I can't see what I've done wrong here. Upon reflection I think:

root (hd0,2) should possibly be root (hd0,3) as I want /dev/hda4 to be the boot partition but grub starts counting from 0. But still I get the same error! Can someone who boots off a /boot partition post their menu.lst and fstab so I can compare!

cg

closet geek

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Registered: 2007-02-20

Posts: 27

Re: Grub error 17 issue

Well I kind of spent too long fiddling for my liking so did a reinstall with Lilo. Worked first time without any config file changes!

Lilo 1, Grub 0!

cg

Last edited by closet geek (2007-02-22 23:04:01)